BASKETBALL

Mid March. Late on a Thursday afternoon. Outside, it is damp and grey. Low, scudding clouds threaten rain. The wind swirls. However, for...

“To play is good, to win is better, but to love the game is the best.” Early March, 2024. Langley, British Columbia. The city readies to...

The coffee shop hums with conversation. Cups and saucers clink invitingly, the latte machine whirrs. A delightful aroma wafts through the...

It looms on the horizon. Just over two weeks to go. Basketball junkies get twitchy. “It” is the 2023 FIBA Men’s World Cup. 32 nations...

Together, we watch. An old friend, wise beyond his years, does not say much. Yet, when he speaks, I listen. “Pressure is just the shadow...

A restless, sleepless night. A coach tosses and turns, his mind swirling. Processing information. “What ifs,” intangibles, game planning,...

2023. An early January evening in Salt Lake City. A professional basketball savant puts on a dazzling display, the capacity crowd’s...

The 2025-26 Canadian university basketball season winds down. Two traditional powers, Victoria and UBC, get set for a February 27 showdown. At stake are bragging rights, a Canada West Men's conference title, and probable top seed at the ensuing national championship. The mouthwatering clash takes me back nearly 50 years to my own "participation" in the long and storied rivalry. ----------------------- Summer, 1977. Up early each morning, I am at work on a municipal watering c

Our family sits around the kitchen table. Dinner reaches a conclusion. It is 1969, a lazy summer evening at the lake. The sun slides...

A one-year Covid induced absence, for better or worse, is now just a memory. Indeed, despite some bumps in the road, the 2021-22...